Actually the employment for oil and gas along with mineral mining is f
astest growing segment of employment.
Within 5 years US will be largest coal. Oil, and natural gas exporter in worldWill be far surpassing Russia and way above Saudi
All your tax funded solar corn and wind projects will make us energy self suffecient but every source enviros want will be far more costly. ALMOST all oil mineral projects for next 5 years are only export ( extraction)
THING is this does little to ease unemployed problem but those now are lost cause for new society planners.
PERMANENT DOLE and sevice industry.
Until wages lower and cheap natural gas will induce even china to build plants here.

Why are the employers of the two missing men not looking for them? Why leaving it to the government. The people who run this company are always saying they need smaller government and no regulations. So why did they not take care of this. Or do they not care if there employees get killed!!! If they did they would have made sure this did not happen.

While im sure at this time, in all likelihood they may never find them unfortunately. My heart and prayers do go out to the two men with the severe burns, as that is the most physical painful thing in the world. And for all affected by this GOD bless you!

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How far are you people from the real life of american workers in the real world anyways?
Almost every day americans lose limbs or die due to industrial accidents.
Those who extract resources for a living many times are the ones who clean up or pack their dead and injured.
Theirs is not a throw a buck in a card sign bs on it and go back to doing inane jobs.
Dangerous work demands different mentality than the crocodile teary hand wringers a proffesional candle lighters.
The company safety and fed or state will be asking if anyone you worked with used dope, alcohol. Having family or financial troubles, any thing at all to put blame on man.
You are the one that packs the dead or maimed. Clean up the tools and gore so you can get back to work again
Your not allowed to have any damn syndrome and mostly you don't.
Coal miners loggers sstel and aluminum meat cutters loggers all the ones who do the dirty work and jobs you are too smart to be any part of only supervise.
World apart damn far apart.

Hide behind, WTH is wrong with you??? Many times your off the wall stuff is comical, if that is we can understand what youre saying even. BUT this is not one of those times. These are ppls lives and they are suffering, show some compassion, dang!

wiseup: How many more people will have to be burned or killed on these oil riggs? Maybe a couple of CEO S and /or some major share holders convicted of negligent homicide might get others to take safety on these riggs a little more seriously.

You who have never lived the lives know not a damn thing of those peoples reality.
Your words no more real than the artificial flowers on their graves.
PIety and hypocracy flow not of real depth of understanding but from some frm of artificiality.
Why do men go back in a coal mine and step over a bloody puddle still red, when they know it could be they who are dead.
LIVes and lies of those who never lived and faced their mortality.
BLOOD of war and industry have stained my clothes I buried friends cleaned their parts and put in bags. And cried with their wives and children, and then seen that child go to work where dad had died.
Don't talk to me of compassion, Mine was real up front and close.
AS I Said you who lived far different lives cannot cross the divide.

Hide behind you have no idea what any of us know or have done but you assume to. I just hope none of those families ever have to read any of that crap. That pain i spoke of from severe burns, i know its the WORST physical pain BECAUSE i lived it!!!

Not to interfear with your discussions here...but wanna just say that itÂ´s Never a personÂ´s OWN choice if their heart gets harden...Noone chooses to! ItÂ´s what happens when ppl instead of fulfilling their own destiny instead interfeares with others destinys... someone mentioned severe burns as the worst physical pain...just got me thinking of Michael Jackson who so severly got burned and wasnÂ´t obviously allowed by the public to feel pain, but instead called an addict when being medicated for it....just a thoguht...

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